Fully remote backend-engineer roles, refreshed daily. The companies here distribute backend ownership across services, with clear domain ownership and pull-request-driven reviews.
Job title
Backend Developer Remote Jobs
66
active positions
23
new in 7 days
132,327 EUR
Avg. salary/year
Open positions
- No positions for this job title currently
Salary expectations
Average: 132,327 EUR per year – based on 0 job listings.
Experience
Avg. salary
Entry-level (0 yrs)
105,000 EUR
Senior (5–9 yrs)
146,667 EUR
Lead / Staff (10+ yrs)
140,120 EUR
In-demand skills
Top skills from 0 job listings
Go
0%
AWS
0%
CI/CD
0%
Kubernetes
0%
Python
0%
Docker
0%
Rust
0%
Postgres
0%
Kafka
0%
Azure
0%
Hiring companies
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What makes remote backend roles different
In a remote setup backend work shifts to clean API contracts, precise tests and written design. Every new endpoint spec lands as an RFC, every migration schema in a pre-PR review doc.
Stack distribution across listings: Python (Django/FastAPI) ~30%, Go ~22%, Node/TypeScript ~18%, Java/Kotlin ~15%, Rust ~7%. Database: Postgres dominant, Redis as cache, Kafka or Kinesis for event streams.
How to apply successfully
- Portfolio: 1–2 documented open-source contributions or a production side-project with a clear README.
- Writing sample: an RFC for a scalable backend problem (rate limiting, multi-tenancy, event sourcing).
- Tech-stack match: use the same language and DB setup as the company.
- Take-home tasks are serious: 80% of remote backend roles screen with a 4–8h coding task.
Frequently asked questions
- Which languages are most in demand right now?
- Python and Go lead — Python for AI/ML-adjacent backends, Go for infra/DevTools companies. TypeScript/Node grows fast in web-focused startups. Rust skews senior.
- What is the pay?
- EU-remote mid: 65–95k EUR. Senior: 95–145k EUR. Staff/Principal: 145–210k EUR. US-remote mid: 110–175k USD. Senior: 170–260k USD. Staff/Principal: 250–380k USD.
- Do I need distributed-systems experience?
- Mid-level: helpful, not required. Senior+: required — system-design interviews on idempotency, eventual consistency, partitioning and replication are standard.
- Are junior remote backend roles realistic?
- More than for DevOps or frontend, but still tight. About 5–10% of the backend roles listed here are explicitly open to 0–2 years — we tag them "junior friendly".